Maine Places

County · Organized · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Census Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Washington County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)

Organized

1847 as Danforth Plantation; organized for election purposes in 1851

Incorporated

1860

Previous Designations

Easterly part of Township No. 8 and westerly part of Township No. 9, Fourth Range NBPP (T8 & T9 R4 NBPP), and the Danforth Tract

Boundary Changes

Part of Weston was annexed in 1885

The westerly part of the town of Eaton (incorporated in 1873) was annexed in 1887, the remainder being annexed to Forest City (now Forest City Township)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Crooked Brook (former post office at Eaton), Danforth, Eaton, Irish Settlement

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Bancroft Township, Brookton Township, Forest Township, Forest City Township, North Lake (N.B.), T8 R3 NBPP, T8 R4 NBPP, Weston

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Danforth

Census Records

1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Danforth

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Danforth, Washington, Maine

Maine Memory Network: Danforth

Bibliography

Bacon, George Fox, Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman (Newark, N. J., Glenwood Publishing Company, 1891)

Dunn, Marion L., comp., and Basil E. Kinney, ed., Baskahegan families: a genealogical dictionary of Bancroft, Danforth, Orient and Weston, Maine ([Portland, Me.?]: B.E. Kinney, 1984)

Love, Wilbur J., A history of Danforth, Maine ([s.l.: s.n., 1932?])